Friday

Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding

BBC TWO, 8.30PM

Following her excellent Suffragettes series, Lucy Worsley now explores an event that had repercussions for the template of the traditional Western wedding day. Victoria and Albert’s wedding grew in importance, given that the monarchy was rocked by scandal and unpopular in the wake of a near-constitutional crisis and the antics of Victoria’s uncle George IV. But, as Worsley documents here, there was an uneasy early courtship, that featured charismatic parrots and bouts of diarrhoea, before love blossomed. This documentary won’t offer new revelations, but the re-creation is meticulous, thanks to food historian Annie Gray and clothing expert Harriet Waterhouse. GT

100 Years of King’s Carols BBC TWO, 7.00PM

First performed as a response to the horrors of the First World War, A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols has since become an annual Christmas fixture. To mark the centenary of the concert, this film charts a year in the life of the King’s College Choir. GT